Sugar Snaps and Strawberries

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Imagine savoring fresh-picked strawberries on a weekend morning, plucking plump figs from your mini-orchard to quarter and serve at a farm-to-table meal with friends, or harvesting and sautAcing the edible stalks of garlic bulbs. If the size of your space is bringing you back to reality, here's the best part: you don't need a big backyard to grow your own food. In fact, you don't need a yard at all. Andrea Bellamy, founder of the acclaimed blog Heavy Petal, gives you the dirt on growing gorgeous organic food with very little square footage. Simple, straightforward, design and growing advice can help you transform just a snippet of space into a stylish and edible oasis. Bellamy goes beyond the surface and shows you how to create and maintain healthy soil, decide what and when to plant, sow seeds and harvest, and most importantly, enjoy the process. So go ahead, picture that tiny nook, corner, strip, porch, alley, balcony, or postage-stamp-sized yard overflowing with fingerling potatoes, fragrant herbs, sugar snap peas, French breakfast radishes, and scarlet runner beans. Armed with luscious photography, encouraging tips, and sophisticated designs, you're sure to be inspired to join the grow-your-own revolution.Youa#39;re living with itaand, in summer, practically in itaso you may as well design
your edible garden to be beautiful as well ... It could be your grandfathera#39;s suna
drenched veggie patch behind the old house, or the casual luxury of the
penthouse suite deck you can see from your balcony. ... Your choice of plants (
attractive edibles combined with ornamental flowa ering plants) and structure (
formal andanbsp;...

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Sugar Snaps and Strawberries

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Andrea Bellamy

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Timber Press - 2011-02-14

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